Chapter 362: Concern for the chaos (2/2)

Long Feiye stared back, his vision growing hazy. He too, was extremely shocked. He never imagined there’d come a day when he was so seriously hurt. He had always been prudent and careful. If this was the past, he’d never go to personally remove the man’s face mask, much less get so close. But he’d been too preoccupied with the implications of today’s attempted kidnapping and lost his usual cool. Because he cared, he’d been careless. Because he cared, he’d been impatient.

Silence fell upon the trio as Long Feiye’s blood kept flowing from his chest. Abruptly, he crashed to the ground, one knee resting against the dirt. Soon afterwards, he fell over entirely in a dead faint.

“Doctor! Quick, find a doctor!” Tang Li shouted, alerting the entire Hidden Pavilion.

Chu Xifeng was trembling all over. He’d followed his master for years, but he’d never been in such a situation before. He was so flustered that he went the wrong way; fortunately, one of the other guards quickly brought over Doctor Lin, the Hidden Pavilion’s in-residence physician. He too, was stunned by the sight.

“Stop the bleeding, quick! We have to do it now!”

Most doctors were expressionless in emergency situations, maintaining their calm and cool. It didn’t mean they were heartless, just that their duty made it an obligation. How were they supposed to save their patients if they were panicking too? They couldn’t afford a single moment of carelessness when a life was at stake! Doctor Lin was a highly professional physician stationed at the Hidden Pavilion, but even he was left flurried by the recent events. After all, His Highness Duke of Qin was in critical condition. It wasn’t clear whether he’d be able to save him!

As he shouted, he took out various things from his medical kit, only to find he did everything out of order. He had to apply medicine before stopping the bleeding first!

“Jinchuang Medicine! Where’s the Jinchuang Medicine?!”1 he dug wildly through his medical kit.

Chu Xifeng and Tang Li stood on the side, both anxious and angry.

“I’ll go find esteemed wangfei!” Chu Xifeng cried, but Tang Li held him back.

“You can’t. You definitely can’t tell Han Yunxi about this!”

“We don’t need to mention the secret chamber. We can just say an assassin attacked him. Otherwise, if His Highness…” Chu Xifeng didn’t dare to finish the sentence. Everything had happened all too fast.

“It’s no use even if Han Yunxi comes. She’s a doctor of poisons, not some Divine Doctor.” As Tang Li held Long Feiye, he realized the man’s hands were getting colder and colder.

Doctor Lin was in a state of absolute panic, but forced himself to suppress his fear and apply medicine to Long Feiye with shaking fingers before binding the wound to stop the bleeding. But how could blood from a chest wound stop bleeding so easily? Could simple Jinchuang Medicine treat an injury like that? Doctor Lin only managed to slow the rate of blood loss instead. Tang Li was close to finding Aunt Ru instead, but Doctor Lin suddenly hit upon a plan.

“Young Clan Head Tang, hurry and find esteemed wangfei. This old man remembers that esteemed wangfei once used a medicine to stop the bleeding when treating poisons. It was very effective. Quickly!”

Naturally, Doctor Lin knew they had to do more than just stop the bleeding, but this was all he could think of for now. This wound had come all too suddenly.

“Why didn’t you say so earlier?!” Tang Li wanted to smack him. He left Long Feiye with Chu Xifeng and hurried away.

It was now the middle of the night, but Han Yunxi still hadn’t gone to bed despite busying herself all day at the estate. Right now, she was sitting on the steps to Long Feiye’s quarters, waiting for him. Because they’d set the date to leave for the disaster areas tomorrow, she was sure he’d come back tonight. She wanted to help him pack his things when he returned. As she waited, she couldn’t help but yearn for their trip ahead. She and Long Feiye had left the estate multiple times, but most of the time they’d hurried out and then hurried back. This time was different, because the trip itself would take multiple days. Moreover, they were going to many different places.

Even though it’d be difficult to relieve the people in disaster areas, Han Yunxi was still happily treating it as a tour. As long as they were together, the trip would be worthwhile no matter where they went, right?

In the middle of her reverie, Tang Li landed in the courtyard and unceremoniously grabbed her by the hand. “Han Yunxi, come with me, quick!”

Han Yunxi was completely baffled as she struggled in his grasp. “What are you doing?”

Tang Li didn’t let her go, but hurried on as he explained, “Someone tried to kill His Highness and stabbed him in the chest. His life’s in danger!”

What?

Han Yunxi was dumbstruck.

1. Jinchuang Medicine (金创药) – jinchuang yao, a type of medicine mentioned often in wuxia novels, good for treating all sorts of injuries in the absence of a doctor.